Chukwuemeka Steve Ohakwe
Senior Software Engineer
A seasoned software engineer with 9 years of experience building robust, maintainable solutions across fintech, logistics, and educational platforms. I specialize in both front and back-end development, including modern web technologies, delivering scalable products that power real-world businesses.
About
I am a highly organized and hardworking individual with a keen attention to detail, ensuring not only meeting but surpassing expectations. Additionally, I am a natural motivator, dedicated to inspiring others to reach their full potential and contributing to a positive and collaborative team environment. With a proven track record of success, I am confident in my ability to bring these qualities to any role and make meaningful contributions.
Currently, I'm a Full-stack Software Engineer at Vendors.so Limited, specializing in both front and backend development. I contribute to the creation and maintenance of UI components as well as the backend implementations that power our platform's frontend, ensuring our platform meets web accessibility standards and best practices to deliver an inclusive user experience.
In the past, I've had the opportunity to develop software across a variety of settings — from advertising agencies and large corporations to start-ups and small digital product studios.
Additionally, I also have a couple of open-source packages which I maintain. These packages/libraries are used by other developers, and are a great way to showcase my skills and knowledge as most were conceived from real-world problems; in addition to making development easier for other developers/engineers.
In my spare time, I usually play video games, reading or exploring new technologies as well as contributing to (or updating my) open source projects. Yeah, I love movies too - action and comedy movies in particular.
Experience
2025 — Present
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Vendors.so Limited
- Build and maintain a multi-tenant e-commerce SaaS (Vendroad) and a gifting platform (Wishgum), with 600+ commits across features, fixes and refactoring. Sellers get product variants, digital products, inventory tracking, shipping rates, pickup, blogs amongst others.
- Integrated Stripe, Paystack and Nomba payments, including webhook verification, merchant settlements that can't pay out twice, and one subscription billing system across all three providers
- Shipped core commerce features: region-based shipping, discounts, inventory tracking, product variants, digital products, store blogs, PWAs with push notifications, variant/combination for uploaded products and Spanish and German translations.
- Rebuilt custom-domain setup (automated SSL, retries that recover on their own) and led the migration of all media from Cloudinary to Cloudflare R2 with zero disruption or data loss
- Fixed security issues (including an IDOR vulnerability) found within the app when onboarded, added server-side Meta and GA4 tracking, and built the admin tools the team uses to run orders, payouts and subscriptions
2023 — 2026
Full-Stack Developer
LegitCar
- Built and maintained LegitCar's vehicle verification platform, adding new paid services: vehicle history reports (Carfax), customs duty calculation, insurance claims, license verification and stolen-vehicle checks.
- Co-built a vehicle marketplace - front end and back end: a Nuxt 3 storefront and a Laravel back end covering listings, search, reservations, cart and checkout, vehicle report sales, and an admin dashboard.
- Added Flutterwave payments and a customer wallet for making payment inside the app. Prevented duplicate charges and stale-price payments
- Led the migration of the older system's database into the new platform with custom Laravel commands, and set up single sign-on across both apps with Laravel Fortify and Google login
- Made the platform faster and more reliable: WebP image conversion and watermarking, live payment status updates (Server-Sent Events), full-text search, automated backups, and logging of outside API calls.
- Improved search rankings and security with SEO-friendly URLs, a sitemap, Google reCAPTCHA, cookie consent and tighter CORS settings
- Fixed production bugs and wrote feature tests
2022 — 2024
Software Engineer (Contract)
ICT Networld
- Refactored legacy codebase and integrated API services like payment, SMS and verification APIs.
- Mentored junior developers and fixed vulnerabilities
- Collaborated on mobile app development
2022
Full-Stack Developer
Offpista
- Developed and maintained web applications for various clients, focusing on responsive design and performance optimization.
- Added features like color contrast checker and lead conversion interface
- Working closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and product managers, to implement and advocate for best practices in web accessibility
2022
Software Developer & Data Analyst Intern
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
- Analyzed a research topic on national economics via GDP vs. FOREX data.
- Developed in-house staff clocking system
- Mentored junior developers
2021 - 2022
Chat Moderator
New Message Services
- Resolved customer issues and managed logs
2020 - 2021
Software Engineer
Webloit
- Developed and managed e-commerce platform
- Implemented marketing and customer service features
- Developed and maintained web applications for various clients, focusing on responsive design and performance optimization. Led the migration of legacy codebases to modern frameworks.
2018
Web Developer (Intern)
Gtext Hub
- Designed responsive websites and managed backend logic
- Collaborated with designers and senior developers to create engaging websites and web applications for clients across various industries.
Skills & Technologies
A snapshot of the tools and technologies I use to build efficient, scalable applications.
Frontend
Backend
DevOps / Tools
Education
November 2018 – July 2023
Bachelor’s in Statistics
University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN)
March 2017 – April 2017
Diploma in Certified Ethical Hacking
Firewall Learning Solution
September 2008 – June 2014
Senior Secondary Certificate
Prince Charles International Secondary School
Certifications
June, 2025
Certificate of National Service
National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
2023
Certificate of English Ability (C1-C2)
Emmersion
Projects
A selection of projects that showcase my skills in full-stack development, UI/UX design, and problem-solving. You can visit my Github profile to see all of them. Let's just call these a 'snippet' of things I have actually built 😉.
Get In Touch
If you would like to discuss a project or just say hi, I'm always down to chat.
Let's work together
I'm currently available for freelance work and full-time opportunities. Feel free to reach out if you have a project in mind or just want to connect.